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| jeremy |
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I agree about the masteful Topsy-Turvy, it makes me wonder whether Mike Leigh might his tried his hand at more obviously crowd-pleasing films more often.
It will be interesting to see how the King's Speech/Social Network awards battle pans out. I sense that Black Swan is not being taken that seriously as a work of art.
There seems to have been a shift the Academy's taste since the days of Ghandi, Out Of Africa, Shakespeare In Love, The English patient et al. Going on the Academy's recent form, I suspect they may balk at the shameless, old-school, popular, filmmaking deployed in King's Speech. On the other-hand, Social Network may be just too cold.
Is Blue Valentine eligable? If so, I wonder if it will steal some nominations from its bigger hitting rivals, particularly Social Network. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 8:26 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: gromit wrote: Has there been any discussion of Winter's Bone?
I think I want to see that now.
I'll try Search, but man was that function useless for Please Give.
Edit: Looks like Ghulam, Bart and Trish liked W'sB.
I admired Winter's Bone without remoting loving it. Jennifer ? is excellent, and so is the woman who plays the "villainess." But the movie is too steeped in its own self-righteousness and self-importance for me to embrace it fully.
Gets an 'E' for effort. I enjoyed it but it is basically the work of something akin to "Not Ready for Prime Time Players".
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 8:34 pm |
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Topsy-Turvy is an excllent movie but it is not vintage Mike Leigh. His forte is movies about strong female characters, a bit eccentric but easy to empathize with.
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 8:35 pm |
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives was a real letdown. Very little happens, a few barely connected drawn out scenes. Seemed like a half-baked film conjured out of a few random ideas concerning transgressing boundaries. Supernatural events occur and join in with the very banal. Seemed amateurish, as it strove for enigmatic.
Even the dvd title menu was slow and irritating.
I don't connect with much recent Asian film, which is a shame since there is a lot of it around. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 8:39 pm |
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jeremy wrote: I agree about the masteful Topsy-Turvy, it makes me wonder whether Mike Leigh might his tried his hand at more obviously crowd-pleasing films more often.
Quote: It will be interesting to see how the King's Speech/Social Network awards battle pans out. I sense that Black Swan is not being taken that seriously as a work of art.
Quote: There seems to have been a shift the Academy's taste since the days of Ghandi, Out Of Africa, Shakespeare In Love, The English patient et al. Going on the Academy's recent form, I suspect they may balk at the shameless, old-school, popular, filmmaking deployed in King's Speech. On the other-hand, Social Network may be just too cold.
Quote: Is Blue Valentine eligable? If so, I wonder if it will steal some nominations from its bigger hitting rivals, particularly Social Network. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 9:56 pm |
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Interesting observations as usual inla. I wish I'd seen more of the films that have been discussed, but my viewing has been even less than the year before. Some I just had no interest in but the ones I wanted to see remained unseen because of short play time and my moving around so much. Sadly many of the best ones don't get here or get here after the horse has left the barn.
Thanks for your opinion of Megamind but I just remembered that animated films are virtually always dubbed here so I may not get to see it here. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 10:27 pm |
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| If Inception wins the Academy Award, I may just give up the Oscars altogether. It's one of the most thoroughly unentertaining films I've seen in years. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:20 pm |
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billy, am right there with you in the event of a Nolan Quadruples His Usual Rubik's Cubery On Acid win. Don't think it's very likely. Mr. O'Neil maintained that Tarantino Rewrites World War II With Gusto might pull a similar stunt last year -- although, upon reflection, would have been much more at peace with a Basterds victory than an Inception upset.
marantzo, my sympathies, that's much how my Year From The Planet Hell went, until the AMPAS/SAG/LAFCC screeners started becoming available to me as it drew to a close. Candles lit for mo' bettah access. Megamind really should be seen with its original voices intact (how they handle the dialogue is a major factor in its charm). Sadly, it hasn't exactly burned up the box office, so hopefully it will be on home video, sooner rather than later. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 2:24 am |
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I walked out of Inception.
Saw True Grit today and loved it. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 7:46 am |
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I enjoyed Inception. Certainly not an Oscar worthy (if they are worthy) Best Picture, but even though the premise is ridiculous, it was fun to watch and I liked all the performances except for DiCaprio, whom I found very flat.
Glad someone loved True Grit. Thanks Marc. I hope it gets here.
Inla, certainly a problem with dubbing Megamind, but an even larger problem for me is my very, very limited Spanish. I'm going to check if they have an English version somewhere. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 8:23 am |
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Marc wrote: I walked out of Inception.
I did the "Home Viewing" version of this--i.e., turned it off after 45 excruciating minutes.
Marc wrote: Saw True Grit today and loved it.
You and the critics. But you're the first "real person" I've encountered who feels that way. Most people I talk with agree with me that it's a genuine disappointment. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 8:35 am |
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Billy and Marc, it does get better as it goes along. Though I wasn't tempted to leave early, there have been movies where I felt like leaving but I had to finish my popcorn first and when I did the movie had become much better. Some didn't and I left.  |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 9:21 am |
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billyweeds wrote: Marc wrote: I walked out of Inception.
I did the "Home Viewing" version of this--i.e., turned it off after 45 excruciating minutes.
Marc wrote: Saw True Grit today and loved it.
You and the critics. But you're the first "real person" I've encountered who feels that way. Most people I talk with agree with me that it's a genuine disappointment.
Most "real people" don't like Westerns. Until Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, no Western had been a top ten box office smash. To this day, Westerns regularly underperform. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 10:35 am |
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The Covered Wagon was the 8th highest grosser of the 1920's (though I doubt you were going back that far.
Duel In the Sun was the 8th highest grosser in the 1940's. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 10:39 am |
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| I'll be really surprised if anything other than The Social Network wins the Academy awards for picture and director. |
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